Vector-borne plant diseases have significant ecological and economic impacts, affecting
farm profitability and forest composition throughout the world. Bacterial vector-borne …

Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) increasingly threaten global food security and public
health. Despite technological breakthroughs, we are losing the battle with (re) emerging …

Within the 16SrII phytoplasma group, subgroups A–X have been classified based on
restriction fragment length polymorphism of their 16S rRNA gene, and two species have …

Wall-less bacteria are broadly distributed in diverse habitats. They evolved from a common
ancestor within the Firmicutes phylum through reductive evolution. Here, we report the …

Native to the Nearctic region, Scaphoideus titanus Ball (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) has
become a major threat for grapevine production after being unintentionally introduced into …

Candidatus Izemoplasma, an intermediate in the reductive evolution from Firmicutes to
Mollicutes, was proposed to represent a novel class of free-living wall-less bacteria within …

The association between insect herbivores and vascular plants represents one of the
greatest success stories in terrestrial evolution. Specific mechanisms generating diversity in …

Simple Summary Phytoplasmas are bacteria transmitted by insects that cause severe
diseases in many plants, including crops, worldwide. Most phytoplasma research focuses on …

Abstract Phytoplasmas (Mollicutes, Acholeplasmataceae), vector‐borne obligate bacterial
plant parasites, infect nearly 1,000 plant species and unknown numbers of insects, mainly …

Phytoplasmas are obligate transkingdom bacterial parasites that infect a variety of plant
species and replicate in phloem-feeding insects in the order Hemiptera, mainly leafhoppers …